Sunday, March 13, 2011

What's left of the American left?

From the UK's Guardian newspaper:

"In contradiction" best describes the American left today. On the one hand, it is fragmented and dispirited, feeling itself distant from the tumble of daily US politics and acutely disgusted by its many-layered corruptions. It hardly knows itself as a part of society, so deep runs its alienation. After all, leftists, too, are affected by the mass media's wishful pretence that the American left has simply disappeared and the extreme right's paranoid caricatures that recycle 1950s McCarthyism.